Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive

The Post-Standard from Syracuse, New York • Page 23

Publication:
The Post-Standardi
Location:
Syracuse, New York
Issue Date:
Page:
23
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

V. Vietnam rum Slated dav at Peace Bridge if Gathering Planned for 'Education' OGDENSBURG An-International Open Forum on Vietnam will be at 2 p.m. Saturday on the New York Side of the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority. The sponsorship of the forum, is the St. Lawrence County Committee Concerned About Vietnam.

A spokesman for the group said Friday the forum would not be a protest but more of an educational forum with speakers, literature and singing on the agenda. However, no one knows exactly what to expect at such a forum so it is expected that police will be patroling the area. The committee is made up of ministers from St. Lawrence County churches and professors at the State University of Potsdam. Other area residents are also members of the group.

In an earlier statement the committee said, "the outdoor gathering is addressed to all people everywhere affirming for all the world to see what is best and most humane in the American tradition of a free and open Several Canadian groups are expected to send representatives the forum. Among them are students' union for peace activities, the Student Christian Movement of Carl ton University of Ottawa, and the New Democratic Party. No comment has been made by city officials although it was rumored that Herbert C. Brian, of Ogdensburg, and Vice Com- Bowling Champions The Chevy II bowlers captured first place in the annual Massena City Women's Bowling Association tournament They scored a 2,698 triple to win the title. Bowlers are Capt.

Kay Wight, Betty Campbell, Linda tice, Joan Murphy and Phyllis Baker, Abolishing mander of the state department of the V.F.W. was checking on type of forum it will be. One city official asked how such a forum could be held on state owned land. It will be staged on the grounds of the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority, near the Ogdensburg- Prescott International Bridge. spokesman for the committee said, "The session is the principle that all Americans ought to be given the opportunity to without qualification of the policiafcAr- sueti tary 1 recently con- ive forums at awrence County churches in Gouverneur, Norwood, Ogdensburg, Massena, and Canton.

The main purpose for the forums were for voter education and registration of opinions on Vietnam. PLATTSBURGH--Another de- Speaker Contest Slated Tonight MASSENA More than 80 persons are expected at the Area 7 Toastmasters Saturday at Area 7, Toastmaers Saturday at the Schine Inn. Ceremonies will begin at 5 p.m. competing in the contest will be toastmasters Clubs from Watertown, Ogdensburg and Massena. Speakers are Richard C.

Craner and William S. Spriggs, Massena; Edwin Frye and Robert Gunsolus, George Bonadio and Herman 'O'Brist, Watertown. The winning speaker will represent Area 7 in the district contest May 13 at the Northway Inn, Syracuse. SUPPLY PASTOR OLD FORGE--Niccolls Memorial Presbyterian Church, presently without a resident pastor, will -have the Rev. Arnold Keller serving.in the pulpit for the next few Sundays.

Keller, who was in charge of Palm Sunday services, will continue through April and possibly into May, Mr. Keller, pastor emeritus of the Church of Our Savior in Utica, has served there 36 is now making his home in Hawkinsvilie. mand for abolition of the beach commission and hiring of a beach manager responsible only to the Common Council came Thursday night from Alderman Lyn King. Pointing to the imminence of the beach season, he demanded to know wh nothing had beeny done about job specifications submitted by the beach commission: Mayor Francis Steltzer said comments on the specifications had been invited from the aldermen, and he was stiii waiting. He recommended calling a meeting of the beach commission, and replacing those members who longer wish to serve.

He said this is especially necessary in the absence of commission a i a John Beauvais, who is hositalized. The mayor also pointed out on agreement has been reached on a'beach manager, or that he should be hired in the manner described by King. Until such time, he felt strengthening the beach commission is the only answer. Alderman Christopher Booth recalled tha a caucus discission on the issue had been postponed in absence, and suggested that it be docketed for the caucus a week from Tuesday. Trout to Be $1 Per $1,000 TOPPER LAKE A tenta- tive budget a i to $313,515 has been released by the Village Board, with a public hearing set for 7 p.m.

April 26 in the village office. The budget calls for a tax increase of $1 per $1,000 assessed valuation. The tax rate this year will be $19, compared to $18 for last year. The total assessed valuation of the village is $9,234.813, as compared to $9,240,187, in 1966 for a drop of $5,374. Increased in the budget are in the public works department, police department and the village general fund and are due to the hiring of a public works superintendent as additional patrolman, two school crossing guards and a 53rd week payday.

Grants Won at St. Mary's OGDENSBURG Six members of the staff ait St. Mary's Academy have received a total of nine federal grants for summer study at colleges and universities in the United States. The grants pay the recipient a weekly stipend of $75 for six weeks of study. Receiving grants under Title II of the National Defense Education Act for study in the arts and humanities are the Rev.

Kd- mund A. Kulakowski, principal, and Sister Mary Mark, GNSH. Father Kulakowski will participate in an institute in educational media at the Learning Resources Center at the Sate University College at Potsdam. Sister Mary Mark has received a grant in history at the University of Vermont. Four faculty members have received a total of seven grants from the National Science Foundation.

These grants provide a stipend fee for study in mathematics and science, Those receiving NSF grants are: Sister Gabriel Marie, University of California and Texas AM; Sister Rose Ann-, GNSH, Colgate and West Chester State College and the University of Arizona. The NSF grants give the recipient the opportunity to study the latest developments in specialized area of mathematics and science. This will enable these teachers to use the up- to-date knowledge in their classrooms when they return in the LOCAL NEWi George K. Swayze. Stale Editor MASSENA POTSDAM OGDENSBURG Dan Carey, MALONE CANTON TRLLAKES PLATTSBURGH 6 THE POST-STANDARD, ApriL.15, 1967 I Saranac Tax Rate New Road Rocky roves Special to The Post-Standard about 10 miles long and the one fall session.

Force Exam ugaes Rites Slated Monday For Harry A. Bullard POTSDAM Services for OGDENSBURG Members Placed RAY BROOK Essex County waterways soon will be heavily stocked with trout, according to a report from Paul Neth, regional risheries manager for the State Conservation at Ray Brook. Neth reported that about 275,000 trout will be added to the lakes, rivers and' streams in both Essex and Clinton counties before the early part of June. He said all trout would be yearlings ranging in size from six to eleven inches with an average length of eight inches. Brown, brook and rainbow trout are the main stock fish introduced in the area mountain waters.

Streams in Essex County slated to be stocked include the Schroon River, Bouquet River, Trout Brook and the east and west branches of the Ausable River. Harry A. Bullard, 80, of 93 Elm died Thursday.at a hospital in Coral Gables, will be at 9 a.m. Monday at the Garner Funeral Home with a solemn requiem Mass at 9:30 a.m. in St.

Mary's Church. Friends may call 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. The survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mollie Bullard; a daughter, Mrs.

James Rubar, of Gouverneur; a son, Charles Bullard of Potsdam; nine grand- i two great- grandchildren, and a sister, Miss Mary Bullard of Carthage. A native of Philadelphia, he had beea a business man- in Potsdam for about 50 years. He owned and operated the Community Ice Cream plant and lat- P'burgh Gl Hurt in Action PLATTSBURGH One of the original members of the North Country Platoon is reported to have been critically wounded in action in Vietnam. Word has been received by the parents of Lance Cpl. Robert Robertson of Halsey's Trailer Park, Boynton Avenue, that he was wounded in action near Quang Tri when he was hurt by a booby trap.

er a store in Market Street. Mr. Bullard was a-strong advocate of the St. Lawrence Seaway and was active in the St. Lawrence Seaway Association.

He was a past president of the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Federation of Chambers of Commerce. His first wife, the former Miss Elizabeth Bryant, died in 1947 and he later married Beal. Donations may be sent to the Potsdam rescue squad. Mollie of the police committee met Thursday with police officials and Mayor Frederick McFadden to discuss the recruitment of police officers. A suggestion was made at the meeting that the Civl Service Commission call for another examination for patrolman.

The possibility of police officers being paid for overtime work during any acute shortage of pob'ce personnel was given some consideration, but no. action was taken at the meeting. The city discussed the city's role in appointing a dog warden. More study will be made on a dog warden for the city and a dog pound to be run by the municipality. ALBANY A bill approving a state-county highway swap in St.

Lawrence County has been signed by Gov. Rockefeller. The measure authorizes a new state highway in St. Lawrence county from a point on state highway 5115 in the Village of Canton- a southeast along county roads 1,101 and 114 to a point near Pierrepont. The same bill provides for state to the county of existing state highway 1126, which also runs from Canton to Pierrepont, but by a less desirable route.

The proposed new highway is 'burgh Asks Enonomic Unit Listing 4 PLATTSBURGH--The Common Council Thursday night adopted a resolution calling on the Eastern Adirondack Development District to designate Piattsburgh as an economic development district. It followed a briefing from Mayor Francis D. Steltzer, reporting that the State Commerce Department is about to list Glens Falls in the special category under the Economic Development Administration. Following initial protests, he said he had spent hours on the telephone with officials of both agencies. However, he said their reports were so contradictory it would be difficult to report on the conversations.

Alderman Christopher Booth sponsored the resolution with the observation, "It is high time we made a little noise." to be abandoned is about eight miles Hong. The legislation was co; sponsored by Sen. H. Douglas Barclay, Pulaski, and Assemblyman Edward J. Keenan, Ogdensburg, This was revealed Thursday night at the public hearing on the preliminary budget.

No taxpayers showed up to question the board about the expenditures scheduled for the year ahead. a appropriations were pegged at $584,000, with $328,108 of this amount to be raised by taxes. Mayor Howard J. Riley said the increases were due to a loss of $67,000 in village assessment value; expenditure of $2,000 for a new police car; an increase of $2,000 to the Saranac Lake Free Library, bringing the total given- by the village to an additional $1,000 payment to the state retirement fund and a $1,300 increase in Social Security payments. CHAZY --A 3 0 Chazy girl was killed instantly Friday afternoon when she was run over by a feed-grinder truck in the front yard of her home on Lake Shore Road.

Diana LaBombard, daughter of Gary La Bombard, was pronounced dead on the scene. State police of the Chazy patrol said the girl apparently ran under the dual-wheel truck as it was being backed out of the yard by Gordon Winterbottom of West Chazy, who had been delivering feed. The men told troopers the girl had been sitting on the back steps of the house while her father talked to Winterbottom. Authorities theorize the little girl tried to run under the truck to her father when the tragedy MASSENA The Village Board will place delinquent accounts on the tax rolls. The village treasurer will file with the Board of Trustees the delinquent accounts of unpaid water and sewer charges, sidewalk assessments, sewer main assessments and unpaid repairs which are owed to the village as of April If the sums remain due and unpaid after due notice, then the amounts will be included in the annual tax levy.

The unpaid bills will be included on the tax warrant Prison Bids Are Opened DANNEMORA--A downstate firm is apparent low bidder on the largest phase of a heating project at Clinton. Prison for (he alteration of service connections the tunnels, totaling $366,000. The Arnold Diamond Corp. of Great Neck was lowest of- six on heating work with a proposal I of $340,000. Piattsburgh- Construction CITY ENGINEER PLATTSBURGH-The city engineer is John D.

Duru of 87 Rugar effective May 11. A 34-year-old graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology, Duru is a civil engineer at Piattsburgh Air Force Base. Corp. was lowest of three on construction, with a bid of $18,240, W. W.

Gettys Electric Co. submitted the lower of two bids on electrical work, at $9,450. DA Gives 13G Loan Special to The Post-Standard NEW YORK The New York Development A i (JDA) plans to close a $13,500 loan to the Essex County Development Corp. to help finance construction of a frozen food processing plant in Ticonderoga for Dominic Paniccia. The JDA second mortgage is for 10 years at 3.75 per cent interest.

The Essex County-Cliamplain Bank will complete financing on the $45,000 project, designed to double the present work force of six after a year. Saturday, mostly doudly with, a few scattered showers or occasional light rain. High in.low 40s to 50s. Winds cast to southeasterly, 10-25. P'burgh Revenues Increase $270,000 ommission Meets Friday CANTON The annual meeting of the Black River-St.

Lawrence Economic Development Commission, Inc. has been called by the president, Joseph Romola, Friday, April 21. The meeting has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge, K.J. Noble Center, St.

Lawrence University, Canton. Augsbury Voted To Hospital Posts OGDENSBURG Frank A. O.v^c5 PLATTSBURGH--City revenues and year-end balances were $270,000 more than at the end of 1965. This was stated in the annual financial report submitted by City Chamberlain John Colver. Revenues and receipts for 1966 totaled over $4,668,000.

Cash balances at the year's end exceeded $1,238,000. The fiscal year ended with a surplus of over $88,000, of which $50,000 was applied to this year's budget, This compared with a surplus of $18,000 a year ago, of which $15,000 was applied to the 1966" budget. Aucsbury Jr. has been reelected president and chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors of A. Barton Hepburn Hospital.

Also re-elected were Joel M. Howard, vice president and Edmund' L. secretary and Charles Van Leet. the hospital business manager, treasurer. Appointment to the medical staff of the Hepburn Hospital was granted to Dr.

John Gibbon, director of the St. Lawrence State Hospital, with privileges as a consulting psychiatrist, and Dr. George Randall was granted major operative privileges in t'he area of obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Randall is a resident of Syracuse, presently serving in the Air Force and due lo arrive in August at ugdensburg to begin his practice.

PUPIL RECITAL CARTHAGE--The fourth annual recital, by piano pupils of Michael. Perfetto Jr. will "be at 7:30 p.m. April 22 at Augustinian Academy. GUEST CONDUCTOR POtSDAM-Dr.

Washburn, professor and acUng associate director of the Crane Department of Music at the State University College at Potsdam, will be guest conductor of the.Wyoming County all-county band, at a concert Saturday in Warsaw. Two of Dr. Washburn's compositions, "Ode for Band," and, "Burlesk for Band," will be among program selections. occurred. Arrangements are incomplete at the Clark Funeral Home in Champlain.

Day Dinner Slated in upper TUPPER LAKE A dinner program has been arranged by attorneys Charles F. Murray and Adam R. Palmer in celebration of Law Day- Loyalty Day U.S.A. The dinner is scheduled for Friday, April 28, at the Riverside Lodge. Edward Shea, Ogdensburg, Lawrence County judge, will be principal speaker.

Among the guests expected to attend are Supreme Court Jus-1 tices Robert Main, Malone; Paul Graves, Gouverneur and Harold Soden, Lake Placid and Franklin County Judge Ellsworth N. Lawrence of Malone. i Alderman Raps i Reply on Pigeons 7 Alcoans Join 25-Year Club MASSENA Seven employes at Masaena operations of Aluminum Company of America have been admitted to the 25-year service club. They are. Carlton G.

Spotswood, 54 Beach an industrial nurse in the personnel-medical department; Joseph R. Caron, 33 Washington a welder; Daniel E. Bero, 4 Stearns inventory Miss Marion E. Larose, control clerk in the accounting department; Alvin A. Bombard, Brasher Falls, a wire drawer; Willie R.

Ladouceur, 15 Orchard in traffic-shipping; Woodrow Graveline, Ogdensburg, crane operator. PLATTSUBRGH-A e- sponse from Health Comrois-. sioner Dr. Joseph F. Rudmin, stating pigeons are a health hazard to somepeople, will stand, despite dissatisfaction with the answer by Alderman Lyn Saying "We got the same curve we got two years ago," King offered a resolution to puh the question again, with a "yes" or "no" answer.

How- request once again for a ever, nobody seconded it. Mayor Francis Steltzer said an ordinance already in effect complies with Dr. Rudmin's recommendations for outlawing the harborage of pigeons in the city. FRANK RYAN MASSENA Frank Ryan, 71, died Friday at the Massena Nursing The body was taken to.the Phillips Memorial Home. Mr.

Ryan was a native of Massena. Surviving is a niece, Mrs. Lena Broadwell of WILLIS J. SAVAGE BOMBAY Services for Willis J. who died Friday, will be at 10 a.m.

Monday in St. Church. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery in Fort Covington. PINEWOOD DERBY WOLCOTT-Cub Scout Pack 110 will have a "pinewood derby" with miniature racing -cars at 2 p.m.

Sunday in the gymnasium at Leavenworth Central School. a Robert Strong invites the public to attend, for what is hoped be the first in a series of annual car races. i Pupil Art Exhibit Pupils of the Junior High of Si. Joseph's Ursnline Academy, Malone, in observance of art month, had an exhibit of some of the work they have done ing of the school year, Some of the art work is pictored, with some pupils, from left, Ralph Beebe, Mary Jane Burton, Julie Paige, Jocelyn Johnson, Maureen Paye and Michael Raymond. FOR SALE i Post-Standard motor route.

Waftrtown, Carthage, Deferiet, Camp Drum area. Priced low for quick sole. Excellent part time work. Good potential. FOR INFORMATION, WRITE John Caruio, 220 Herald Place, Syracww, Y.

13201 ASTRONOMY TALK POTSDAM Dr. Alan S. Meltzer, a specialist in astronomy who is a member- of the physics faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will give a talk about astronomy during a visit next week at the State University College here. Dr. Meltzer will visit the Potsdam campus Monday and Tuesday to meet and discuss astronomy with students and faculty.

He will disc.uss speciality during a public lecture at 8 p.m. Monday in S'towell Hall Auditorium. SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD News Dept RO 9-524? MASSENA Circulation i 111 treta William Reid 25 Cfarkson assens Froncit Todd Star Route, Canton 386-2500 Michael Nicola 13 Chestnut St, Potsdam CO 7-4372 Kenneth RD 1, Saransc Lake 891-3538 Gerald Sanset AreVTtrppfir Lake A Jt Vii.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

About The Post-Standard Archive

Pages Available:
222,443
Years Available:
1875-1978